Cartridge-carrier.



J. M. BROWNING. CARTRIDGE CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 28. m1.

4 [rive/7 for A farflE'g Patented Apr. 29,1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. BROWNING, OF OGDEN, UTAH, ASSIGNOR TO COLTS PATENT FIRE ARMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CARTRIDGE-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1919.

Application filed November as, 191 Serial No. 204,451.

To all whom it may concern:

- a citizen of the United States, residing at Ogden, in the county of Weber and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cartridge carriers. I use the title selected as a matter of convenience, and further for the fact that the invention involves the cartridge as well.

In a certain kind of machine gun the ammunition is' carried by 'a belt which is usually flexible and of textile material. There are ordinarily a large number. of these cartridges which fit loops or pockets in the belt. The latter is subjected to vibration, jars and shocks particularly when used as an adjunct in aerial warfare. When the belt is thus vibrated, the .result is that the cartridges are dislodged or slipped from their correct positions. In this event the efficiency of the belt is naturally affected;

certainly it is so far as the displaced cartridges are concerned. One of the funda-.

mental purposes I have in view is the provision of an articleof the nature set forth by which the cartridges are positively prevented from moving withrespect to their carrier or belts This particular movement which I eliminate is in the direction of the longitudinal axes of the cartridges. While of the cartridges.

it is conceivable that the function I attain can be secured in several ways, I prefer to do so by peripherally roughening the shells he roughened portion is desirably secured by providing the shell -with a multiplicity of small pro ections or barbs which bite into the fabric of the car rier when the cartridges are in proper assembled relation therewith and thus accomplish theend in view. These projections or barbs are comparatively speaking of quite small size and thus donot interfere with the proper insertion of the cartridge into the gun of whatever type it may be; they point toward the butt or base of the car tridge and thus resist in a proper manner the accidental displacement of the cartridges by entering the-material of thecarrler or belt.

In the drawings accompanying and formpart of the presentspecification I have forth fully in the following description.

As will be clear, I do not restrict myself to this particular disclosure; I may depart therefrom in several respects within the scope of the invention defined by the claims following said description.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan View of a cartridge carrier with cartridges sustained embodying the invention. 7

Fig.2 is a transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig.3 is a detail in section and on an enlarged scale of a portion of the carrier and cartridge, the arrow pointing toward the base of the cartridge. I

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

The article involves in its make-up a belt or carrier as 2. This is generally made of webbing or some suitable textile material, and ..its length may be as required. The carrier or belt 2 is furnished with a line of loops or fockets as 3 customarily made in-' pockets it is necessary to pull them rearwardly which ,in Figs 1 and 2 is toward the right. closure of a structure quite common in the field of ordnance. My invention while not necessarily restricted to use in connection therewith is of particular utility, however, when employed in connection with parts such as those described.

The cartridges are shown transversely alined in Fig. 1, and as will be inferred one of my principal motives is to maintamth s alinement under various cond1tions.;.'1 he The foregoing is a concise dis-' cartridges have an interlocked relation with their carrier-or belt. While it is conceivable that this can be accomplished in various ways, I prefer to provide the shells with one or more circumferential projections or teeth which penetrate the fabric of the belt and thuseflectually preclude this endwise movement. The shells 5 are shown provided peripherally near their forward orreduced ends with a multiplicity of 001m paratively fine projections or teeth 9. These teeth point toward the rear of the shell as best shown in Fig. 3. They maybe formed in any desirable manner upon the' shells and do not increase its diameter or caliber as to interfere in'any wise with their proper insertion into' the barrel of the gun. When the cartridges are pushed home in the belt, however, these peripheral projections, barbs or teethbite into the stock of'the belt to such an extent as to efl'ectually prevent accidental backward movement of the cartridges and thus maintain them in line with eachother and also in proper' position in the belt. v

What I claim is:

1. A cartridge comprlsing a shell and a projectile, the shell being peripherally roughened to cooperate with a belt to prevent accidental movement of the cartridge with respect to the belt.

2. A cartridge comprising a shell and a projectile, the shell having a multi licity of pointed projections on its circum erence to' enter a belt and thus prevent accidental movement of the cartridge with respect to the belt.

3. A cartridge comprising a shell and a projectile, the shell having a circumferentialprojection having a point which points toward the butt or base of the shell.

4. A cartridge comprising a shell and a projectile, the forward port on of the shell having a multiplicity of pointed projections to enter the material of a belt and thus prevent accidental relative movement of the cartridge and the belt.

5. A cartridge comprising a shell and a projectile, the forward portion. of the shell having a multiplicity of pointed projections which point toward the butt of the shell.

In testimeny whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN M. BROWNING.

Witnesses:

L. L. MARKEL, HEATH SUTIEEERLAND. 

